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European Film Award For Best Documentary
The European Film Award for Best Documentary or Prix Arte has been awarded annually since 1989 by the European Film Academy. Special Mentions were presented alongside the winner of the award until 1993, since 1999 a set of nominees are presented out of which a winner is chosen. Criteria Documentary films taken into consideration must have a minimum length of 70 minutes. They must have either had a theatrical release in at least one European country, at a European competitive feature film festival accredited by FIAPF or been screened at one of the following documentary festivals: * Cinéma du Réel (France) * Copenhagen International Documentary Festival (Denmark) * Doclisboa (Portugal) * Dok Leipzig (Germany) * International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (The Netherlands) * Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic) * Kraków Film Festival (Poland) * Sheffield Doc/Fest (UK) * Thessaloniki Documentary Festival The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Film Award
The European Film Awards (or European Film Academy Awards) have been presented annually since 1988 by the European Film Academy to recognize excellence in European film, cinematic achievements. The awards are given in 19 categories, of which the most important is the ''Best Film''. They are restricted to Cinema of Europe, European cinema and European producers, directors, and actors. The awards were officially also called the "Felix Awards" until 1997, in reference to the former award's trophy statuette, which was replaced by a feminine statuette. Since 1997, the European Film Awards have been held in early- to mid-December. Hosting duties have alternated between Berlin, Germany in odd-numbered years and other Lists of cities in Europe, European cities in even-numbered years. The 33rd European Film Awards, most recent European Film Awards were held on 12 December 2020 as a Videotelephony, virtual ceremony. In reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian films were e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pictures Of The Old World
''Pictures of the Old World'' ( sk, Obrazy starého sveta) is a 1972 Slovak documentary film by Dušan Hanák Dušan Hanák (April 27, 1938 in Bratislava) is a Slovak people, Slovak film director. Hanák graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, FAMU (Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts) in Pragu .... The film is about old people who seemingly live at the edge of society. Pictures of the Old World was voted in 2000 by Slovak critics as the best Slovak film of all time. The film won the Best Non-Fiction Film at 1990 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards. The film was banned until 1988 and so it is officially premiered in July 1988. Characteristics The film consists of dialogues with old people who haven't been "deformed by civilisation." The film tries to find answers to questions of human existence. People featured in the film tell their life stories that are linked to their ancestors' customs. Their lives are ofte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Jarl
Stefan Jarl (born 18 March 1941) is a Swedish film director best known for his documentaries. Together with Jan Lindqvist he made the ''Mods Trilogy'', three films which follow a group of alienated people in Stockholm from the 1960s to the 1990s, '' They Call Us Misfits'' (1968), '' A Respectable Life'' (1979) and ''The Social Heritage'' (1993). ''A Respectable Life'' won the 1979 Guldbagge Awards for Best Film and Best Director. Jarl also wrote and directed '' Jag är din krigare'' (1997), and directed '' Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced'' (2003), ''The Girl From Auschwitz'' (2005), and ''Submission'' (2010), a documentary about the "chemical burden" of synthetics and plastics carried by people born after World War II. At the 25th Guldbagge Awards in 1990 he won the Creative Achievement award and in 2017 Jarl received the Lenin Award. Selected filmography * '' They Call Us Misfits'' (''Dom kallar oss mods'') codirector Jan Lindqvist * '' A Respectable Life'' (''Ett anständ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6th European Film Awards
The 6th European Film Awards were presented on 4 December 1993, in Potsdam, Germany. The winners were selected by the members of the European Film Academy. Awards Best Film Best Documentary Lifetime Achievement Award References External links European Film Academy Archive 1993 film awards European Film Awards ceremonies Euro The euro ( symbol: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of 19 out of the member states of the European Union (EU). This group of states is known as the eurozone or, officially, the euro area, and includes about 340 million citizens . ... 1993 in Europe December 1993 events in Europe {{film-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paweł Pawlikowski
Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski (; born 15 September 1957) is a Polish filmmaker. He garnered early praise for a string of documentaries in the 1990s and for his award-winning feature films of the 2000s, '' Last Resort'' (2000) and ''My Summer of Love'' (2004). His success continued into the 2010s with ''Ida'' (2013), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and ''Cold War'' (2018), for which Pawlikowski won the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, while the film received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Early life Pawlikowski was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a father who was a doctor and a mother who started as a ballet dancer and later became an English literature professor at the University of Warsaw. In his late teens, he learned that his paternal grandmother was Jewish and had been murdered in Auschwitz. At the age of 14, he left communist Poland with his mother for London. What ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th European Film Awards
The 5th European Film Awards were presented on November 25, 1992, in Potsdam, Germany. The winners were selected by the members of the European Film Academy. Awards Best Film Lifetime Achievement Award References External links European Film Academy Archive 1992 film awards European Film Awards ceremonies Euro The euro ( symbol: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of 19 out of the member states of the European Union (EU). This group of states is known as the eurozone or, officially, the euro area, and includes about 340 million citizens . ... 1992 in Europe {{film-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürgen Böttcher
Jürgen Böttcher (pseudonym Strawalde, born 8 July 1931) is a German film director and painter. He is best known for his film ''Born in '45''. See also * A. R. Penck Ralf Winkler, alias A. R. Penck, who also used the pseudonyms ''Mike Hammer'', ''T. M.'', ''Mickey Spilane'', ''Theodor Marx'', "''a. Y.''" or just "''Y''" (5 October 1939 – 2 May 2017) was a German painter, printmaker, sculptor ... References External links * 1931 births Living people German documentary film directors People from Frankenberg, Saxony Film directors from Saxony {{Germany-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maciej Drygas
Maciej Drygas (born 1956 in film, 1956 in Łódź) is a Polish documentary film, documentary filmmaker. Career Following graduation from the Directing Department of the Moscow All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), also known as the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, he worked as an assistant to Krzysztof Zanussi and Krzysztof Kieślowski. His first documentary as director was ''Hear My Cry (1991 film), Hear My Cry'', about Ryszard Siwiec, who, in September 1968, protested against communist totalitarianism, and in particular the entry of Warsaw Pact forces into Czechoslovakia, by setting fire to himself (self-immolation) in front of thousands of people during the harvest festival at the 10th Anniversary Stadium in Warsaw, an incident that was censored in the media at the time. His follow-up film, Weightless, looks at the human cost of the Russian space programme. Drygas is currently director of the radio drama section at the Reportage Laboratory at Warsaw Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hear My Cry (1991 Film)
''Hear My Cry'', (Polish: ''Usłyszcie mój krzyk'', literally "Hear My Scream") is a 1991 Polish documentary film directed by Maciej Drygas. Storyline The story of an ordinary accountant from south-east Poland, Ryszard Siwiec, who set himself on fire during the large harvest festival at the Warsaw National Stadium, Warsaw, stadium in 1968. He did it to protest Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, against the military invasion in Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Czechoslovakia. Production The film's director, Maciej Drygas, first learned of Ryszard Siwiec in the summer of 1989 when he read an interview in Gazeta Wyborcza with Adam Macedoński who worked to further Polish-Czech relations. Drygas was currently writing a screenplay which included the story of the self-immolation of Romas Kalanta and became interested in the phenomenon and the lack of information on Siwiec's death. He started by looking through newspapers from 1968, but didn't find any information. The first clue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4th European Film Awards
The 4th Annual European Film Awards were given out in 1991. Winners European Film of the Year Young European Film of the Year * ''Toto the Hero'', by Jaco van Dormael, Prod. Pierre Drouot & Dany Geys, Iblis Films Bruxelles, Belgium European Actor of the Year * Michel Bouquet - ''Toto the Hero'' European Actress of the Year * Clotilde Courau - ''Le Petit Criminel'' European Supporting Actor of the Year * Ricky Memphis - ''Ultra'' European Supporting Actress of the Year * Marta Keler - ''Virdzina'' European Screen-Writer of the Year * Jaco van Dormael - ''Toto the Hero'' European Cinematographer of the Year * Walther van den Ende - ''Toto The Hero'' European Film Composer of the Year * Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson - ''Börn Náttúrunnar'' ''(Children of Nature)'' European Production Designers of the Year * Kreta Kjnakovic (sets) and Valerie Pozzo Di Borgo (costumes) - ''Delicatessen'' European Film Editor of the Year * Giancarla Simoncelli - ''Ultra'' European Cinema Lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Step Across The Border
''Step Across the Border'' is a 1990 avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith. It was written and directed by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel and released in Germany and Switzerland. The film was screened in cinemas in North America, South America, Europe and Japan, and on television in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France. It was also released on VHS by RecRec Music (Switzerland) in 1990, and was later released on DVD by Winter & Winter Records (Germany) in 2003. Shot in black and white, the 35mm documentary was filmed between 1988 and 1990 in Japan, Italy, France, Germany, England, the United States and Switzerland, and shows Frith rehearsing, performing, giving interviews and relaxing. Other musicians featured include René Lussier, Iva Bittová, Tom Cora, Tim Hodgkinson, Bob Ostertag and John Zorn. The film won a "Special Mention" at the European Film Award for Best Documentary in 1990. A companion soun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
